Just because there is some mobility between "classes" (here somehow imagined to be fundamentally different than castes) doesn't make discrimination go away.
Unemployed are heavily discriminated against and generally, people seem to love condoning off their respective social habitats at every opportunity.
Is hostillity diguised as competition with some weird "survival of the fittest" ideology actually producing better outcomes than friendly cooperation would?
Or are people just bad at nuance and distinguishing friend from foe?
I think class and caste are very different. Caste is ascribed at birth and can't be changed. Class is related to wealth and behaviors, and can certainly change in either direction over the course of someone's life. If you were born into a rich family, you may start "upper class," but then later in life find yourself farther down. Or the reverse.
It's usually not easy to change class though and certain indicators like speech patterns are difficult to get rid of.
People discriminate based on whatever they can discern.
My point is, class and caste are both fundamentally the same as they are both rooted in culturally accepted/tolerated discrimination and prejudice.
>>My point is, class and caste are both fundamentally the same as they are both rooted in culturally accepted/tolerated discrimination and prejudice.
It's okay for us to disagree on this point, but I do want to make mine clear:
MY point is that class and caste are both fundamentally different, since one can change and the other can't, despite both being rooted in culturally accepted/tolerated discrimination and prejudice.
Unemployed are heavily discriminated against and generally, people seem to love condoning off their respective social habitats at every opportunity.
Is hostillity diguised as competition with some weird "survival of the fittest" ideology actually producing better outcomes than friendly cooperation would? Or are people just bad at nuance and distinguishing friend from foe?